Concern over the Everglades
By
Fernanda Ponce on June 5th, 2012 | Last updated: March 28, 2013 at 4:09 pm
Over the past years, the runoff from agricultural areas have polluted and caused a quarter of the Everglades to be lost. Florida’s 89.1 WUFT-FM’s Fernanda Ponce reports on a plan that will expand the sizes of treatment facilities to restore the Everglades.
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